Brazil’s former president faces new corruption charges

‘Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been confronted with fresh allegations of criminal charges linked to the massive embezzlement scheme at state-owned Petrobras oil company.
Federal prosecutors on Thursday accused Lula of taking bribes from the construction giant Odebrecht in the forms of an apartment and land on which to build his Lula Institute think tank in Sao Paulo.
Lula “is accused of practicing the crimes of passive corruption and money laundering,” the federal prosecutors’ service said in a statement. His wife, also, is accused of money laundering.’
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